"I don't like to be told what to do. I like to do what I want to do."

"I don't care about what people say about my movies. I make them for myself."

"I think your questions are reductive and I'm not answering them."

"We don't tell a story. We tell a situation. Most of the movies that you see nowadays... you pretty much know everything you're going to see in the movie by the first 10 or 20 minutes. Now, that's not …"

"I steal from every single movie ever made. If people don't like that, then tough tills, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal, they don't do homages."